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The intergenerational transmission of economic inequality : extent, determinants and policy responses – TRANS-INEQ
Recent research has revealed the strong intergenerational correlation of income and other economic outcomes in developed and developing countries. A wide array of phenomena is likely to account for the intergenerational transmission of economic status, as discussed in many areas of the social scienc
Properties and function of lateral inhibition in the globus pallidus – LatInhGP
Parkinson's disease, which is caused by the degeneration of dopamine neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta affects more than 4 million people worldwide and is characterized by bradykinesia, rigidity and resting tremor. The Basal Ganglia (BG) are a group of subcortical nuclei involved in moto
OrganoCatalysed CannaBinoid Target-oriented synthesis of pyrazoline – OCat-CBtag
The increased demand from pharmaceutical industry for single-enantiomer heterocylic compounds, accessible by environmentally benign and economically reliable asymmetric catalytic methodologies, have placed the use of organocatalysts as major tools in that field. This project aims to construct a nove
Collective behaviour & diffusion: mathematical models and simulations – CBDif-fr
Recently a group of European scientists proposed an homonymous ESF project on Collective behaviour & diffusion (CBDif). French mathematicians were associated to the preparation the scientific project. This proposal is intended to fund the French participation to the project. French and other Europea
Kin recognition in neonates and adults: an interdisciplinary approach – Family-Air
Exchanges within the family and cooperation among related individuals are stronger than among unrelated individuals, from a theoretical as well as experimental point of view. From this observation, a probing question emerges regarding mechanisms that allow humans to categorize related individuals. T
Analytical Tools for Cancer Chemotherapy Improvement – AnaTools
Scientific background and objectives Quantification of intracellular physiological and cytotoxic nucleoside/nucleotide pools by on-line SSPE LC-MS/MS methods The major obstacles of cancer chemotherapy are the severe side effects and the development of drug resistance. Due to the modest tumor specifi
Pancreas and Kidney organogenesis: developmental and disease molecular mechanisms – KiPancreas
The transcription factor vHNF1/ HNF1beta/ Tcf2 is emerging as an important regulator of early organogenesis in vertebrates. In humans, heterozygous mutations in the HNF1beta (further designed as HNF1b) gene are the cause of the multi-organ syndrome Maturity Onset Diabetes of the Young, subtype 5 (MO
Prebiotic lipids from carbon oxides and H2S at hydrothermal vents. Investigation by laboratory simulation experiments – Prebio-Lipid
Metalloenzymes with transition metal-sulfide complexes located at their active sites play a key role in several metabolic pathways comprising carbon fixation processes as well as redox processes. Because of the simplicity of these metal-sulfide complexes and the diversity of their functions, their p
Automatic annotation and Visual concept Extraction for Image Retrieval – AVEIR
xte et motivation Contexte et motivation Retrieving images in very large databases has been an active field for several years now. Image retrieval systems roughly fall into two categories: content based image retrieval (CBIR) and retrieval using manual keyword annotation. For CBIR, queries are image
The emergence of grammaticality in children : Cognitive, linguistic and conversational factors – EMERGRAM
The principal aim of the project is to identify early signs of grammaticality in children learning French, English and Spanish, and to provide an account of the driving forces underlying this development. The originality of this project lies in the alliance of longitudinal and experimental data from
